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From: Graeme on 5 Aug 2010 09:22 In message <0001HW.C88067D60BB2CBD5F0407648(a)news.eclipse.co.uk> Stimpy <stimpy1997uk(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote > > iballooka <kamtek(a)nospamtoday.hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Any suggestions for a Mac friendly Sat Nav looking at the Garmin 1390T > >> any comments on this or alternatives.... > > > > Tom-Tom? Works for me. > > > > Yup. I've had a couple of Tomtoms and they both work fine with OSX. > > The official 'Tomtom Home' software for OSX does everything you need > (Backups, installing updates, maps, POIs etc) so you never need to get into > manually copying stuff to/from the device. > I've found Tomtom Home to be a bit buggy. I've never been able to get it to launch from the SatNav, it has to be running first before the machine will talk to it. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 5 Aug 2010 09:43 On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:22:46 +0100, Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <0001HW.C88067D60BB2CBD5F0407648(a)news.eclipse.co.uk> > Stimpy <stimpy1997uk(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote >> > iballooka <kamtek(a)nospamtoday.hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Any suggestions for a Mac friendly Sat Nav looking at the Garmin 1390T >> >> any comments on this or alternatives.... >> > >> > Tom-Tom? Works for me. >> > >> >> Yup. I've had a couple of Tomtoms and they both work fine with OSX. >> >> The official 'Tomtom Home' software for OSX does everything you need >> (Backups, installing updates, maps, POIs etc) so you never need to get into >> manually copying stuff to/from the device. >> > >I've found Tomtom Home to be a bit buggy. I've never been able to get it to >launch from the SatNav, it has to be running first before the machine will >talk to it. Heh. I threw it away because I couldn't stop it popping up, even when I was just connecting the tomtom to charge! Mines a cheapy and I don't subscribe to any update services, or upload new cheesy voices. Backing it up consists of taking a disk image for me. Cheers - Jaimie -- I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford
From: Stimpy on 5 Aug 2010 10:15 On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:22:46 +0100, Graeme wrote > In message <0001HW.C88067D60BB2CBD5F0407648(a)news.eclipse.co.uk> > Stimpy <stimpy1997uk(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote >>> iballooka <kamtek(a)nospamtoday.hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Any suggestions for a Mac friendly Sat Nav looking at the Garmin 1390T >>>> any comments on this or alternatives.... >>> >>> Tom-Tom? Works for me. >>> >> >> Yup. I've had a couple of Tomtoms and they both work fine with OSX. >> >> The official 'Tomtom Home' software for OSX does everything you need >> (Backups, installing updates, maps, POIs etc) so you never need to get into >> manually copying stuff to/from the device. >> > > I've found Tomtom Home to be a bit buggy. I've never been able to get it to > launch from the SatNav, it has to be running first before the machine will > talk to it. Works fine here. Fires up as expected when I plug the Tomtom into the USB port. Tomtom Home v2.7.5.877. I seem to remember it was a bit flaky in the early days but that would be 3 or 4 years ago now?
From: Steve Firth on 5 Aug 2010 15:11 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > iballooka wrote > > Any suggestions for a Mac friendly Sat Nav looking at the Garmin 1390T > > any comments on this or alternatives.... > > I've been very pleased with my Garmin 360. Garmin offer a Mac program which > updates the software whenever a new version comes out. (It doesn't update the > maps - you have to pay for those.) You can pay for a lifetime map subscription which is worth the cost. I've been using a N�vi 250W for many years and I'm about to change to a newer whizzier type of Garmin. At the moment I can't make my mind up between the one that looks like an iPhone 4 or the one that has a TV built in. The iP4-alike is winning though, it supports portrait format which as all right-thinking folk know is the proper way to do it.
From: Mike Lane on 5 Aug 2010 17:31 iballooka wrote on Aug 5, 2010: > Any suggestions for a Mac friendly Sat Nav looking at the Garmin 1390T > any comments on this or alternatives.... > > Cheers > > Garmin have a free set of Mac OS X software you can download here: http://www8.garmin.com/macosx/index.jsp The Nuvis that I've tried seem to all work very well, but here's a serious issue with my Garmin GPSmap76 Cx. If you try to read the microSD data card on a Mac it will cause this unit to crash due to the hidden folders that the Mac writes onto the card. (There's a utility which will wipe the hidden files that I use, but that's another story.) -- Mike Lane UK North Yorkshire mike_lane at mac dot com
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